The unconscious limits of advice and thinking

We've all been on both sides of it: receiving advice that feels irrelevant or simplistic to our actual situation, and giving advice that falls flat despite our best intentions. The disconnect traces back to a basic truth about minds — people can largely...

One of the most underestimated problems in leadership, organizations, and relationships is how uncomfortable people are with uncertainty. Many people would rather give a confident wrong answer than say three simple words: "I don't know."

This is not usually malicious. It is psychological. For many ...

Finding your exact dimensions

Humility is often misunderstood as the act of shrinking oneself — staying quiet, deflecting recognition, taking up less room. But authentic humility, as illuminated by the Mussar tradition, a Jewish practice of ethical and spiritual growth, is not about self-erasure at...